2K Cowboys of the Sea chords
Cowboys of the Sea
--Bruce Springsteen
transcribed by dagl@nwu.edu

This is approximate, I am still not sure about some chords.

The Riff is:Em   C D   G Am   G Em
Listen to the demo to get the rhythm


Em                      Am  C           D
They ride beneath the waves at 20000 leagues
Em                       Am              C             Bm
On stallions stitched to seaweed strands so smiling so smiling
Em                   Am
They herd the fishes of the deep
     C                D
they ride for you and me
Em                      Am                 C        D     Em
they ranch the rich and sunken soil at the bottom of the sea

       C              D                    G             Bm
In the dead of night, alive in sleep I hear them calling me
     C               D            C                  D
them deep sea desperadoes them midnight maelstrom freaks 
     C       D     Em
the cowboys of the sea

repeat Riff


On wings of sleep I pierce the deep and ride like a hurricane
at midnight still I paid my bill and turned my back on the land
with the help of old paint, that seaweed nag
it's just Jesse James and me
we ride the depths and rob the banks at the bottom of the sea


and with a seaman's grip on navigationand some fired hired hands
we ride out to confront the nation and lend a cowboy's hand

we do the dolphins' dance duet my mermaid babe and me
then I ride off into the blue sunset at the bottom of the sea
and with a seaman's grip on submarining and some aqualung outlaws
our guns are made of solid dreamin' and bullets from a broken cause

oh and with hand held high to touch the sky a good texas ranger I'll be
but sometimes I feel like a lone stranger 'midst the cowboys of the sea


C                          D                 G                   Bm
Oh and man above he cannot make love he must rape his mother the sea
    C                          D                  C        D      Em
and because of his greed we're vanishing breed we cowboys of the sea

repeat riff